The third International Congress ASC: Art, Science and City aims towards fostering and deepening multi-disciplinary art research on how experimentation of visual studies, art history, aesthetics, architecture and urban planning generate knowledge, stories and histories. To that end, we look into the generic frame of the question over contemporary discourses, under the title of this third edition, How Are Things Told? What we aim for is opening up new avenues of knowledge that take art as methodology and starting point, to tackle questions as real as the awareness of present, image inflation, the matter of the missing images; the media configuration of contemporary brand cities; and those practices that place themselves out of bounds of academic structures and that resort to alternative fields and cultures, in an attempt to decentralize and escape the West as axis of thought.

This Third International Congress ASC: Art, Science and City: How Are Things Told? Is an inter-university project which, fostered from the Department of Art and Architecture and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Málaga, Spain, in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universitat Politécnica de València (Polytechnic University of València) and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (University of the Basque Country), will include PANELS that will develop three lines of analysis that will tackle the title line of the congress. A CREATIVE ROOM with practical proposals for a variety of technical devices. The ART & ENTERPRISE ENCOUNTERS will be a space to establish contacts between research and production. The RESEARCH GROUPS MEETING is a meeting of different research teams, with the objective of sharing problems, trouble-shooting and research lines.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Abstracts for ASC'17 of Full Papers (ten pages) or Short Papers (five pages) must have a minimum of 300 words and a maximum of 500 words.The abstract is directly filled on the EasyChair conference application. Please indicate on the content of the abstract to which of the two options is presented. Abstracts for Creative Room Program have the same word boundaries but completed in a different model for including images, diagrams, maps or any graphic information.

Include the title of your presentation, authors, affiliations, contact details for the corresponding author and abstract. Please also state whether your submission is for an oral presentation or a creative room project. The abstract should be self-contained and explicit, covering the aims, methods, results and main conclusions of the work. The abstract should not contain figures, tables or references.

Full papers: In order to publish the proceedings of ASC'17 with the best quality, we ask that authors follow these guidelines. All papers must be formatted according to the ASC'17 template. The easiest way is to download the template and replace the text, section by section. http://www.artsciencecity.com/en/call-for-papers-en/

Creative Room Projects: Another way of participating in the congress is through the presentation of physical material, which will be exhibited 23nd and 24th of November, 2017, at the Exhibitions Hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Malaga. This space will display projects and/or proposals in different media (visual arts, audiovisual material, models, graphic documents, music, installations…) connected to the themes of the congress (included in any of the three lines of the congress: [histories] [cities] [out of bounds]).

Virtual papers: For those people who can not personally attend the congress to defend their paper, there is the option to make a virtual presentation. Once the paper is accepted, we will indicate to the interested parties how to prepare the virtual presentation.